Dr. Garrett Schumann
@garrt.bsky.social
Third-most well-known composer named 'Schumann' - scholar, music writer, working parent, and "less-prestigious faculty" - based in southeast Michigan - founder of #beansky - TBTL Ten
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Data is correct, causal agency is (IMO) incorrect.
The vast majority of ppl who use AI to make images and video have never touched and would never touch Photoshop/AfterEffects/Illustrator/etc. The issue is Adobe trying to squeeze its users with subscriptions, and other customer-hostile behavior.
The vast majority of ppl who use AI to make images and video have never touched and would never touch Photoshop/AfterEffects/Illustrator/etc. The issue is Adobe trying to squeeze its users with subscriptions, and other customer-hostile behavior.
From Dare Obasanjo on Mastodon. Adobe is hitting the floor. #AI
January 17, 2026 at 11:57 AM
Data is correct, causal agency is (IMO) incorrect.
The vast majority of ppl who use AI to make images and video have never touched and would never touch Photoshop/AfterEffects/Illustrator/etc. The issue is Adobe trying to squeeze its users with subscriptions, and other customer-hostile behavior.
The vast majority of ppl who use AI to make images and video have never touched and would never touch Photoshop/AfterEffects/Illustrator/etc. The issue is Adobe trying to squeeze its users with subscriptions, and other customer-hostile behavior.
Anyone know how to disable the new AI-integration in the Gmail app on my android phone?
January 17, 2026 at 12:27 PM
Anyone know how to disable the new AI-integration in the Gmail app on my android phone?
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anyone else thinking of migrating away from gmail in the wake of new ai integration, and if so, what platform/client(s) do you recommend!?
January 17, 2026 at 3:10 AM
anyone else thinking of migrating away from gmail in the wake of new ai integration, and if so, what platform/client(s) do you recommend!?
There's some kind of loud utilities vehicle operating on the street outside our home and it seems...too late?...for this to be happening
January 17, 2026 at 1:53 AM
There's some kind of loud utilities vehicle operating on the street outside our home and it seems...too late?...for this to be happening
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Current* conditions near Sault Ste. Marie, MI:
January 17, 2026 at 1:48 AM
Current* conditions near Sault Ste. Marie, MI:
Shout out to @composerbrad.bsky.social for helping me choose my starter modular synth (Behringer Neutron) back in 2021, I'm using it tomorrow and wouldn't be doing this performance at all if I hadn't chosen to change my artistic focus four and a half years ago and embrace electronic stuff
I suppose this is as good a time as any to promote my debut ambient noise show 7 PM tomorrow at Cluster Museum in Ann Arbor (307 N. Main Street)
It's gonna crunch!
It's gonna crunch!
January 16, 2026 at 10:01 PM
Shout out to @composerbrad.bsky.social for helping me choose my starter modular synth (Behringer Neutron) back in 2021, I'm using it tomorrow and wouldn't be doing this performance at all if I hadn't chosen to change my artistic focus four and a half years ago and embrace electronic stuff
I suppose this is as good a time as any to promote my debut ambient noise show 7 PM tomorrow at Cluster Museum in Ann Arbor (307 N. Main Street)
It's gonna crunch!
It's gonna crunch!
January 16, 2026 at 9:57 PM
I suppose this is as good a time as any to promote my debut ambient noise show 7 PM tomorrow at Cluster Museum in Ann Arbor (307 N. Main Street)
It's gonna crunch!
It's gonna crunch!
Awkward that the "protect girls' sports!" goons and the "invading and occupying American cities is good, actually" goons are the same goons
They are canceling youth sports across the city in Minneapolis this weekend because lawless masked armed federal paramilitaries are targeting the children and families.
Minneapolis Parks and Recreation has canceled youth sports because ICE is terrorizing our community
January 16, 2026 at 8:11 PM
Awkward that the "protect girls' sports!" goons and the "invading and occupying American cities is good, actually" goons are the same goons
One of my favorites growing up
Unknown to most historians, William Tell had an older and less fortunate son named Warren.
January 16, 2026 at 3:06 PM
One of my favorites growing up
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Theater camp is everywhere for those with eyes
January 14, 2026 at 3:18 PM
Theater camp is everywhere for those with eyes
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I was telling one of my kids that it was physically impossible for an ad to play between songs on any of the records I own, and they asked "and you only have to pay for it once?" and you could see how strange that seemed. You cannot overstate how many basic rules of media consumption have changed.
January 16, 2026 at 4:59 AM
I was telling one of my kids that it was physically impossible for an ad to play between songs on any of the records I own, and they asked "and you only have to pay for it once?" and you could see how strange that seemed. You cannot overstate how many basic rules of media consumption have changed.
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ICE hates for their brutality to be seen and recorded. In almost every encounter, you’ll notice that the ICE agents are the ones aggressively attacking citizens who are non-violently exercising their rights. DHS has threatened to prosecute organizations doing these constitutional observer trainings.
January 16, 2026 at 12:43 PM
ICE hates for their brutality to be seen and recorded. In almost every encounter, you’ll notice that the ICE agents are the ones aggressively attacking citizens who are non-violently exercising their rights. DHS has threatened to prosecute organizations doing these constitutional observer trainings.
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The only thing that seems gives them pause is the presence of white Minnesotans, which is why there are now parent school patrols at almost every school in the cities. Neighbors visibly in high-viz vests to alert ICE if they try to kidnap kids, parents, or teachers that the task will be annoying.
January 16, 2026 at 12:36 PM
The only thing that seems gives them pause is the presence of white Minnesotans, which is why there are now parent school patrols at almost every school in the cities. Neighbors visibly in high-viz vests to alert ICE if they try to kidnap kids, parents, or teachers that the task will be annoying.
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Regular people are, at a moment’s notice, dropping everything to go watch armed masked goons. They blow whistles to notify other neighbors to come out of their homes and record what is happening and get the vulnerable inside. ICE hates it because they don’t want people to know what they are doing.
January 16, 2026 at 12:36 PM
Regular people are, at a moment’s notice, dropping everything to go watch armed masked goons. They blow whistles to notify other neighbors to come out of their homes and record what is happening and get the vulnerable inside. ICE hates it because they don’t want people to know what they are doing.
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Because the media does not know how to frame what is happening, they keep referring to regular Minnesotans as protesters. But there is very explicit training that so many people done to learn how to be a constitutional observer. People are bearing witness to kidnappings, with phones and whistles.
by @democraticwins.bsky.social CNN just aired a devastating compilation of all the times ICE brutally attacked Americans. Remember, Donald Trump sponsored this. This is done at his command.
January 16, 2026 at 12:31 PM
Because the media does not know how to frame what is happening, they keep referring to regular Minnesotans as protesters. But there is very explicit training that so many people done to learn how to be a constitutional observer. People are bearing witness to kidnappings, with phones and whistles.
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Somehow Democratic leaders will see photos like this and think the solution is to “re-train” ICE when the only path forward is to dissolve the entire agency and prosecute the animals inside it
Stunning photos from Minneapolis, including this one by John Locher for the Associated Press. www.theatlantic.com/photography/...
January 16, 2026 at 12:43 PM
Somehow Democratic leaders will see photos like this and think the solution is to “re-train” ICE when the only path forward is to dissolve the entire agency and prosecute the animals inside it
I've had very vivid dreams this week
January 16, 2026 at 12:20 PM
I've had very vivid dreams this week
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i think gavin newsom fucking sucks and if you ever try to guilt me into voting for him i’ll scream
January 16, 2026 at 3:24 AM
i think gavin newsom fucking sucks and if you ever try to guilt me into voting for him i’ll scream
I think my piece for Saturday's show (7p, Cluster Museum - 307 N. Main Street, Ann Arbor) is done!
It is called "Memory" (ca. 45')
Tonight I decided to change a few things, including running a pre-recorded narration through my 'Stereofield' - the outcome is less intelligible but more interesting
It is called "Memory" (ca. 45')
Tonight I decided to change a few things, including running a pre-recorded narration through my 'Stereofield' - the outcome is less intelligible but more interesting
January 16, 2026 at 4:31 AM
I think my piece for Saturday's show (7p, Cluster Museum - 307 N. Main Street, Ann Arbor) is done!
It is called "Memory" (ca. 45')
Tonight I decided to change a few things, including running a pre-recorded narration through my 'Stereofield' - the outcome is less intelligible but more interesting
It is called "Memory" (ca. 45')
Tonight I decided to change a few things, including running a pre-recorded narration through my 'Stereofield' - the outcome is less intelligible but more interesting
This Knicks/Warriors game doesn't want me to go to bed
January 16, 2026 at 4:13 AM
This Knicks/Warriors game doesn't want me to go to bed
Early today I dreamed of an America where Zohran Mamdani represents the conservative voice
January 16, 2026 at 4:06 AM
Early today I dreamed of an America where Zohran Mamdani represents the conservative voice
80 minutes? Shana and I spend more than two hours each morning - before we go to work - with our kids between when they wake up (6:45) and when our oldest is on the school bus (ca. 9:00)
The Economist should have called ME!
(I would take their money to write something about anything, of course)
The Economist should have called ME!
(I would take their money to write something about anything, of course)
Older generations spent a lot less time parenting. Millennial dads spend nearly as much time parenting as Boomer moms did. Millennial and Gen X moms way more.
via The Economist
via The Economist
January 16, 2026 at 4:02 AM
80 minutes? Shana and I spend more than two hours each morning - before we go to work - with our kids between when they wake up (6:45) and when our oldest is on the school bus (ca. 9:00)
The Economist should have called ME!
(I would take their money to write something about anything, of course)
The Economist should have called ME!
(I would take their money to write something about anything, of course)
The milk chocolate covered raisins at By The Pound are very good
January 16, 2026 at 3:12 AM
The milk chocolate covered raisins at By The Pound are very good
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Foster’s Home for Chopped and Cooked Uncs
January 16, 2026 at 1:52 AM
Foster’s Home for Chopped and Cooked Uncs
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fiadh is an openly antifascist label. we do NOT require artists we work with to make political statements, but we DO require them to reject fascism, hateful ideologies & nsbm/nsds. if you are unwilling to do that, pls look elsewhere 💕
January 15, 2026 at 7:46 PM
fiadh is an openly antifascist label. we do NOT require artists we work with to make political statements, but we DO require them to reject fascism, hateful ideologies & nsbm/nsds. if you are unwilling to do that, pls look elsewhere 💕